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Research shows that adults who estrange themselves from relatives often do so "with a great amount of care and consideration over time," she says.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

Translation was for him a ferrying across borders and a way of hearing one language estrange another.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

"Children who choose to estrange themselves aren't making a little decision on a whim," explained Joshua Stein, a researcher who tracks online trends, especially those that intersect with psychology and bioethics.

From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2024

Another reason I spend more time advising those who estrange vs. those who have been estranged?

From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2022

You speak in your letter about 'trickery'—used to estrange us!

From The Lady of the Mount by Frederic Stewart Isham

She transforms herself from “a wild, hatless little savage” into a lady, which estranges her from her childhood companion and besotted admirer, Heathcliff, a foundling who lives with her family.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

There exists an invisible line that estranges us both emotionally and, often physically, from the rest of the society.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2019

Ultimately, this thing is just another machine that estranges us from the ingredients that make up the food and drinks that we consume.

From Slate ● Nov. 15, 2018

Meekness, he said, “enables us to set aside everything that divides and estranges us, and to find ever new ways to advance along the path of unity.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2016

Wilhelmine’s excessive sentimentality estranges her from her husband, a weak brutish man, who has no comprehension of her feelings.

From Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century by Harvey W. (Harvey Waterman) Hewett-Thayer

Welsh actor Taron Egerton has opened up about his estranged relationship with his dad.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

The uproar estranged old friends and drew sharp criticism from Jewish organizations and Holocaust survivors, though it did not derail her career.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

‘I have zero regrets’: I’m 84 and estranged from my two adult sons.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026

Rodgers also has been estranged from his parents and brothers for quite some time now.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

So far estranged, that I did not expect him to come and speak to me.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Opponents of the monarchy who have taken a less diplomatic position — criticizing the public for falling victim to establishment groupthink, for example — have been called out by other republicans for estranging would-be allies.

From New York Times ● Sep. 12, 2022

By estranging me from the world, derealization, paradoxically, makes it more real.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2022

“Financial derivatives are more cognitively estranging than pennies. Global climate change is more cognitively estranging than yesterday’s local weather.”

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 6, 2019

They spoke on the condition of anonymity over concerns about estranging colleagues.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 30, 2018

Although an infant is the real, nay, the only bond of married life, still, the child of sin is a spectre ever rising 'twixt husband and wife, estranging them from one another for ever.

From The Pobratim A Slav Novel by P. Jones